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News Fairman said it currently has 57 per cent population coverage for its LLU (local loop unbundling) product - and is aiming to ramp that up to 68 per cent by the end of August. Mobile operator O2 UK has launched a business broadband service and...
[01 May 2008]
News Two-thirds of the UK's households were able to get broadband and phone services through local loop unbundling (LLU) by the end of 2006 - compared with only two-fifths of homes able to connect by LLU at the end of 2005.
[24 May 2007]
News Customers of local loop unbundlers (LLU) will now get extra protection from misselling, the telecoms industry watchdog Ofcom has announced. From this week, consumers who get their voice or broadband from LLU companies can expect the same protection...
[22 May 2007]
News Virgin Media - formerly known as NTL:Telewest and Virgin Mobile - has signed Cable & Wireless to supply its unbundled network. The four year deal will mean Virgin Media will be able to supply customers outside of its cable network with its quad...
[18 May 2007]
News Local loop unbundling (LLU) is a process whereby telecoms operators other than BT provide voice and data services to homes and businesses using BT's infrastructure. Steve Robertson, the chief executive of Openreach - the business unit established...
[05 Feb 2007]
News One million lines have been unbundled from BT's telephone exchanges, the telco said, as part of its local loop unbundling (LLU) programme. BT's Openreach division, which provides installation and maintenance services on behalf of other telcos, is...
[10 Nov 2006]
News A BT spokeswoman told silicon.com: "Order volumes are driven by the LLU [local loop unbundling] operators so it's difficult for OpenReach to anticipate future broadband figures. BT engineers are to work round the clock to keep up with rapid growth...
[08 Nov 2006]
News Openreach is the company that was split off from the rest of BT last year - at the insistence of the regulator Ofcom - to help other broadband providers get more of an equal footing by installing their own equipment in BT's exchanges, a process...
[06 Nov 2006]
News The company also announced it was expecting £20m in additional costs during the current financial year, with the unexpectedly high take-up of free broadband meaning "incremental wholesale broadband costs incurred across a larger base, delays to...
[11 Oct 2006]
News Local loop unbundling (LLU) is the process whereby competitors to BT are able to install their own equipment in BT's exchanges. Blaming the August "holidays effect" in part, Black said on Monday "you couldn't fault the commitment of Openreach's...
[05 Sep 2006]
News BT also recently cut the prices of migrating customers from its wholesale broadband offering to LLU products. Despite the increasing pace of unbundling, LLU regulator the Office of the Telecoms Adjudicator (OTA) still has reservations about BT's...
[16 Jun 2006]
News Bachelet added: "However, if Bulldog is to successfully capitalise on the UK local loop unbundling (LLU) boom, which has been fuelled by substantial reductions in LLU charges and the creation of BT Openreach, the challenge, as ever, will lie in...
[08 Jun 2006]
News The process of bringing greater competition to the UK's telecoms sector is picking up pace, according to Peter Black, the UK's telecommunications adjudicator. Black, who oversees the unbundling of BT's local exchanges, reported on Friday that...
[06 Feb 2006]
News According to Ian Fogg, analyst at JupiterResearch, local loop unbundling (LLU) is often too expensive for smaller players to afford, leaving them struggling to differentiate themselves in a highly competitive market.
[01 Feb 2006]
News AOL is investing millions in local loop unbundling (LLU), a move designed to help it compete in a higher speed, service-orientated broadband market. AOL has announced it will be spending £50m on the first phase of its LLU programme, which will...
[20 Jan 2006]
News Point Topic also warned the UK was lagging behind other countries in local-loop unbundling (LLU) - the process where rival telcos install their own equipment in BT's local exchanges and offer competing wholesale services.
[03 Jan 2006]
News Just today BT announced it's cutting its Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) prices by 40 per cent, as part of its strategy to stimulate competition and avoid Ofcom intervention. Bulldog has taken inspiration from the dark days of dial up with its latest...
[16 Nov 2005]
Leader It has always served the business world well and was among the earliest competitors to BT to make local loop unbundling (LLU) work - back when most others were complaining about the conditions for LLU, in fact.
[21 Oct 2005]
News Business ISP Zen Internet has announced its own local loop unbundling (LLU) trial, with the Rochdale exchange the first to be set free. However, according to Zen, the decision to invest in LLU is driven more by a need to control the hardware at...
[21 Oct 2005]
News The Murdoch-owned satellite provider said it had decided to acquire Easynet, which made £8.9m in EBITDA last year, because of its significant broadband presence in the UK as well as its efforts in local loop unbundling (LLU).
[21 Oct 2005]
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